Before God answered more slowly and gradually, 1 Samuel 23:1,12, but now he answers speedily and fully at once, because the business here required more haste. So gracious is our God, that he considers even the degree of other necessities, and accommodates himself to them.
CHAPTER 30 _ 1. The Amalekites destroy Ziklag (1 Samuel 30:1)_ 2. David's distress and return unto the Lord (1 Samuel 30:6) 3. David pursues the Amalekites (1 Samuel 30:9) 4. The young Egyptian
1 SAMUEL 30. AMALEKITE RAID ON ZIKLAG._ Cf._ above. 1 SAMUEL 30:1. On reaching Ziklag, David found that the Amalekites had sacked the town and carried off the families and property of himself and hi...
_inquired at_ = inquired _of_. Cp. Genesis 24:57. _pursue … overtake_ Cp. Exodus 15:9....
The pursuit 7. _bring me hither the ephod_ He desired to consult God by means of the Urim and Thummim, as before at Keilah (1 Samuel 23:9)....
_1 SAMUEL 30:8_.— We may just note here, what we have frequently observed, how much the insertion of particles in our version flattens the sense. Every reader of taste will discern it in the last clau...
_David's Pursuit of His Enemies._ 1 Samuel 30:7-20 7 And David said _to_ Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David....
_AND DAVID SAID TO ABIATHAR THE PRIEST, AHIMELECH'S SON, I PRAY THEE, BRING ME HITHER THE EPHOD. AND ABIATHAR BROUGHT THITHER THE EPHOD TO DAVID._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE AMALEKITES RAID ZIKLAG, AND ARE PURSUED BY DAVID 2. Slew not any] They would be valuable as slaves....
ENQUIRED AT THE LORD] by means of the Urim in the ephod: see on Exodus 28:30....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 30 DAVID FIGHTS THE *AMALEKITES V1 David and his men arrived at Ziklag three days later. The *Amalekites had attacked the southern part of th...
וַ יִּשְׁאַ֨ל דָּוִ֤ד בַּֽ יהוָה֙ לֵ אמֹ֔ר
CHAPTER XXXV. _ DAVID AT ZIKLAG._ 1 Samuel 30:1. AFTER David had received from King Achish the appointment of captain of his body guard, he had with his troops accompanied the Philistine army, passi...
A BLOW THAT LED BACK TO GOD 1 Samuel 30:1 As David was leaving the battlefield, a number of men of Manasseh fell to him, 1 Chronicles 12:20, so his following was greatly increased. It was as if God h...
Being thus delivered, David returned to Ziklag. In his absence it had been sacked by the Amalekites. Immediately the true spirit of patriotic heroism was stirred within him, and he moved with rapid de...
And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail (e) recover [all]....
(7) В¶ And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. (8) And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shal...
We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 AND 30. In chapter 29 God, in His loving-kindness, brings David out of his difficulty by means of the jealousy of the lords of the Philistines. Nevertheles...
AND DAVID INQUIRED OF THE LORD,.... That is, by Abiathar, who reported his questions to the Lord in his name: SAYING, SHALL I PURSUE AFTER THIS TROOP? the large company of the Amalekites, as it appea...
And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail recover [all]. Ver...
_He answered_ Before God answered more slowly and gradually, 1 Samuel 23:11; but now he answers speedily, and fully at once, because the business required haste. So gracious is our God, that he consid...
1 The Amalekites spoile Ziklag. 4 Dauid asking counsell, is encouraged by God to pursue them. 11 By the meanes of a reuiued Egyptian, he is brought to the enemies, and recouereth all the spoile. 22...
And David inquired at the Lord, by means of the Urim, SHALL I PURSUE AFTER THIS TROOP, the raiders who had taken away the women and children? SHALL I OVERTAKE THEM? AND HE ANSWERED HIM, PURSUE; FOR TH...
David's Return to Ziklag...
Returning to Ziklag, David and his men find themselves described by the meaning of Zikiag's name, "enveloped in grief." They had been at least some days away, and the Amalekites had invaded the land,...
7-15 If in all our ways, even when, as in this case, there can be no doubt they are just, we acknowledge God, we may expect that he will direct our steps, as he did those of David. David, in tenderne...
1 Samuel 30:8 David H1732 inquired H7592 (H8799) LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800) pursue H7291 (H8799)...
DAVID AND HIS MEN PURSUE THE AMALEKITES AND DESTROY THEM, RECOVERING ALL THAT THEY HAD LOST AND MORE IN ABUNDANCE (1 SAMUEL 30:7). The Amalekites, aware that any opposition to what they had done was s...
CONTENTS: David avenges the destruction of Ziglag. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abiathar, an Egyptian. CONCLUSION: When we go abroad to tarry for a while with the enemies of God's people, we may expect t...
1 Samuel 30:7. _Abiathar brought the ephod._ None but the priest could wear this, and as the highpriest could not consult the oracle without the knowledge of his sovereign, Abiathar wore the ephod, an...
_When David and his men were come to Ziklag._ DAVID IN THREE SITUATIONS at Ziklag in his distress, on his way to the Amalekites, and among the Amalekites. I. David in his distress. See in it the fr...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 30:1. “THE SOUTH,” or the _Negeb_, the south country, so called by the Israelites as being the southern part of Palentine. 1 Samuel 30:2. “THEY SLEW NOT ANY.”...
DAVID RESCUES HIS WIVES FROM THE AMALEKITES (1 Samuel 30:1). EXPOSITION DAVID UPON HIS RETURN FINDS ZIKLAG BURNT BY T
And when they got back to Ziklag they found that the Amalekites had invaded the land (1 Samuel 30:1); Now here's something quite interesting. The Amalekites were the ones that God ordered utterly exte...
1 Samuel 14:37; 1 Samuel 23:10; 1 Samuel 23:2; 1 Samuel 23:4;...
He answered — Before, God answered more slowly and gradually, 1 Samuel 23:11, but now he answers speedily, and fully at once, because the business required haste. So gracious is our God, that he consi...